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February 7

What are your current professional responsibilities?: Professor, Instructional Technology Trainer, Educational Consultant for Teaching Without Walls. I'm also facilitating online teaching workshops through @One, a grant funded organization that supports instructional technology training for all California Community Colleges.

Do you have a personal Web site? If so, what is the URL?: http://www.teachingwithoutwalls.com

Do you have a personal Blog? If so, what is the URL?: http://mpbreflections.blogspot.com

Do you have a LinkedIn profile? If so, what is the URL?: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpbrock

Do you have a Twitter account? If so, what is the URL?: http://twitter.com/brocansky

Why are you interested in joining Innovate-Ideagora?: Because I l-o-v-e reading the articles, I'm passionate about the need for innovation in higher ed and I see the transformative effects of teaching with social networking tools and emerging technologies in my own online classes. I just LOVE this stuff.

What do you think are the most pressing issues/challenges in using technology to enhance the educational process?: Leaders who are completely disconnected and uninformed about the sweeping social changes brought about through social technologies. Also, ADA (section 508) compliance. And, in community colleges, lack of monetary resources to support faculty efforts. Community colleges carry 50% of online enrollments in our country yet their resources pale in the face of university programs.

Generational Diversity in Higher Ed ... a critical dialogue for us all

Week One Video Orientation for My Online Students

VoiceThreads for Education - a tutorial of VoiceThread and some suggested educational applications. This tool has transformed my teaching!

VoiceThreads - Student and Instructor Feedback

At 10:16pm on February 7, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…: Hi Professor Pacansky,

With your work in Instructional Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.

At 8:10pm on February 7, 2009, Steve McCarty said…: Read about your Sloan-C conference presentation just when I was contemplating getting involved. It would be nice to present there someday. The West Coast is closest to Japan, bar Hawaii :)

For a couple years I've been trying to master YouTube video making, and am getting students to do it as a class project:

http://commune.wilmina.ac.jp/weblog/waoe
(January post - the interface is in Japanese)

Soon when I take students to New Zealand I'm going to try 'vlogging abroad.'

At 6:51am on December 28, 2008, Steve McCarty said…: Michelle,

Greetings from Japan. Your blog posts about the Sloan-C conference were timely for me, as they have found my work podcasting student performances and I wondered if I might attend one of their conferences. I'm using much the same technologies, but Voicethread and Slideshare have not worked smoothly. Packets running through so many gateways or Japanese versions of software introduce glitches sometimes.

I was born in Boston but partly schooled in what became Silicon Valley, alas. Then from an outer island of Japan, with no IT support, I founded the World Association for Online Education in 1998 and led it until 2007.

Though my Japanese sons in engineering colleges are digital natives, I've kept ahead of them in getting things done online. My behavior seems to fit your Millenials category, but that can't be right :)

At 12:33pm on October 29, 2008, Tracy Poelzer said…: Hi Michelle,

I, too, am a HUGE Voicethread fan. I've actually watched the one that you posted above that focussed on artwork (and shown it to a few others), so it was neat to see you in this onine community too!

At 1:49pm on October 3, 2008, Nan Chico said…: Hi Michelle,
Yes, Susan recently finished her master's degree here and created a really excellent online course as part of her capstone project.

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